Andreas Brandrud
{{Short description|Norwegian church historian}}
Andreas Brandrud (26 February 1868 – 14 June 1957) was a Norwegian professor, theologian and church historian.
Biography
He was born in Sør-Fron as a son of farmer and merchant Torsten Brandrud (1837–1933) and Anna Bleken (1844–1879). In February 1897 he married dean's daughter Anna Broch Martens (1875–1966).
{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Andreas Brandrud|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=|last=|authorlink=|editor=Helle, Knut|editor-link=Knut Helle|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Andreas_Brandrud/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=17 November 2011}}
He came from a Haugean family and studied theology at the University of Kristiania.
He took the cand.theol. degree in 1892. He made a study trip to Germany, where he studied under Reinhold Seeberg (1859–1935) in Erlangen and Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) in Berlin. He also studied in Italy, Denmark and the United Kingdom. He became an assistant at the National Archives of Norway in 1896, then a professor at the Royal Frederick University from 1897 to 1938.{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Andreas Brandrud|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|editor=|url=http://www.snl.no/Andreas_Brandrud|language=Norwegian|accessdate=17 November 2011}} As a researcher, Brandrud had Norwegian church history after the Reformation as his primary focus.{{cite web|url= https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/ueberblick/geschichte/rektoren/seeberg/|title= Reinhold Seeberg|website= Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1898, received an honorary degree at Lund University and the Order of the Polar Star.
Brandrud was also admitted into the exclusive skiing-based social club SK Ull in 1889. He served as deputy chairman from 1905 to 1910, and chairman from 1910 to 1912 and 1940 to 1949.{{cite book|author=Vaage, Jakob|author-link=Jakob Vaage|year=1983|title=Skiklubben Ull 100 år 1883–1983|language=Norwegian|location=Oslo|pages=7–9}}
Selected works
- Klosterlasse. Et bidrag til den jesuitiske propagandas historie i Norden (1895)
- Den kristne kirkes historie. Et grundrids (1915)
- Stavanger domkapitels protokol 1571–1630 (1897–1901)
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Category:Norwegian historians of religion
Category:Historians of Christianity
Category:University of Oslo alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Category:Order of the Polar Star
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